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Hillary Carlip may have revealed much of her life in her 2006 memoir, "Queen of the Oddballs." But here's a secret she left out: She has a fondness for collecting discarded shopping lists &ndash; and dreaming up whom the shoppers behind these lists may be.

In her new book, "A la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers," Ms. Carlip portrays the imagined lives of the people whose grocery lists she found over the years. The book features the author -- with much make-up magic -- posing as 26...